Those travellers who access Highway 401 from King Street in Kitchener will get some good news and some short-lived bad news on Friday.
The good news is that the Highway 401 eastbound on-ramp from King Street East/Shantz Hill is scheduled to reopen Friday after months of construction, according to MTO.
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The bad news is that access for travellers headed in the opposite direction will experience a closure — albeit a short-lived one — for the on-ramp.
The MTO says the Highway 8 eastbound ramp to Highway 401 eastbound will be closed on Friday night from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. Saturday morning.
“The King Street/Shantz Hill Road ramp to Highway 401 eastbound will be open before this temporary closure,” MTO spokesperson Christina Martin told Global News via email.
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The work in the area is far from done, as Martin says there will be full closures of the Highway 401 westbound to King Street east/Shantz Hill ramp and to the Highway 8 westbound ramp following Labour Day weekend.
She says the ramps won’t close at the same time and announcements will be made prior to closure dates.
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